Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News Asked by reporters how the profound changes announced last week in Havana by President Raúl Castro at the Sixth Communist Party Congress –…
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By Kathleen Haughney From the Sun Sentinel College students seeking to vote at their campus precinct will find it harder to do. So will women who've changed their name but not…
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By Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera From the Segunda Cita blog Since the 19th century, the United States began to expand beyond the 13 colonies created in eastern North America. The expansion…
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By Saul Landau Quien siembra vientos recogerá tempestades – Spanish proverb He who sows winds will reap hurricanes (proverb translation) Luis Posada Carriles, now in his 80s, has…
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By Alfonso Chardy Taken from The Miami Herald Orlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban exile militant charged and then acquitted in the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976, died in Miami…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera With the enthusiastic support of Fidel Castro, the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba has just ended. Not by happenstance, the date chosen for the…
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Al’s Loupe Feds: Miami-Dade Transit Dept. lies – still not releasing $185 million By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progreso-weekly.com A couple of weeks ago I asked about Miami-Dade…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party’s values – in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great…
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Saul Landau and Jack Willis For 60 years the nuclear industry has promised the world cheap, safe and clean energy. As the Japanese government continues to extend its nuclear…
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The Sixth Congress By Luis Sexto Between the Fourth and the Sixth congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, which have so many similarities, there was an interval of exactly 20…
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